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Digging Up the Past
Divers excavate artifacts during ongoing excavations of a ship that sank around 65 B.C. off the Greek island of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea. In August 2016, archaeologists and technical…
Read MoreEyes on the Deep
During the austral summer of 2016, WHOI scientists Viviane Menezes and Alison Macdonald joined the crew of the research vessel R/V Roger Revelle and traveled north from Antarctica to Australia, braving frequent…
Read MoreWomen of the Ocean
WHOI post-doctoral investigator Kara Dodge (left) and engineer Amy Kukulya made a series of trips this fall to track and film sea turtles using technology based on the SharkCam system…
Read MoreHeavy Water
During the austral summer of 2016, WHOI scientists Viviane Menezes and Alison Macdonald traveled to Antarctica to study a physical ocean process known as Antarctic Bottom Water or AABW. In…
Read MoreTo Boldly Go
The hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereid Under Ice (HROV NUI) returns from a dive to the deck of the icebreaker Polarstern in October of last year. WHOI senior scientist Chris…
Read MoreNet Work
WHOI Summer Student Fellow, Sara Hamilton, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Ellie Bors, and WHOI lab assistant Julie Pringle (left to right) collect river herring specimens in a local creek. The…
Read MoreWhere Currents Collide
In 1973, a string of mooring floats goes over the fantail of the WHOI research vessel Chain during the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE). Conceived by renowned physical oceanographer Henry Stommel,…
Read MoreNereid Under Ice video montage
Alvin’s Legacy Runs Deep
On June 5, 1964, the Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin was commissioned at the WHOI dock, in a ceremony attended by hundreds eagerly anticipating what the submersible would accomplish over its…
Read MoreDance Against Guff
This year, as in years past, members of the WHOI staff joined with Falmouth High School students and local videographer Brian Switzer to speak out against bullying in the annual…
Read MoreArctic Sound Duct
WHOI engineers led by Lee Freitag have developed and tested a long-distance communications system that would transmit and receive signals under Arctic Ocean sea ice. They exploited a naturally occurring…
Read MoreDeep Science
WHOI geologist Adam Soule looks out of the pilot’s porthole on the human-occupied submersible Alvin during a dive near the mid-Atlantic Ridge in 2016. Soule, who is also the chief scientist for…
Read MoreBoundary Conditions
At the ocean surface, heat and energy is exchanged between the air above and the water below. Every day, the sun rises and warms a thin layer of surface water.…
Read MoreBranching Out
In two months, young kelp less than 1 millimeter long (left) will grow nearly one foot (right) and, in six months, will be over six feet and ready for harvest.…
Read MoreCorals Reveal Past Climate
WHOI paleoclimatologist Konrad Hughen studies the history of Earth’s changing climate—using corals. The tiny living coral animals, known as polyps, lay down a new layer of calcium carbonate skeleton each…
Read MoreBreaking the Ice
When the WHOI-operated research vessel R/V Atlantis (right) docked in Manzanillo, Mexico, at the end of December, to prepare for its current cruise to explore the Pito Deep, it was…
Read MoreVince’s Cross
George Vince’s cross is a popular destination for visitors to McMurdo Station, the U.S. research base in Antarctica, and New Zealand’s Scott Base. MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Laura Stevens…
Read MoreTower of Power
Divers prepare to attach an instrument to the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) air-sea interaction tower. The MVCO is a research and engineering facility operated by WHOI to facilitate regional…
Read MoreUndersea Acoustics
The marks on this figure are acoustic traces, the visual representations of underwater sounds recorded at sea sometime around 1960. Sounds such as these interfered with the U.S. Navy’s ability…
Read MoreLine Test
WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and R/V Tioga first mate Ian Hanley recover a storm buoy from Buzzards Bay last November. Engineers at the University of Maine designed the…
Read MoreA Visit to the Upgraded Jason
David Scully (right), chair of the WHOI Board of Trustees, visits with Tito Collasius, expedition leader for the remotely operated vehicle Jason, to hear about the deep-sea vehicle’s recent major…
Read MoreTracing the History of Hurricanes
WHOI guest student Dan Litchmore and research assistants Charlotte Wiman and Nicole D’Entremont (left to right) conduct a sonar survey of coastal ocean bottom sediments near the Caribbean island of…
Read MoreSeal Whisker Sensor
Heather Beem earned her Ph.D. in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography working biomimetics: using features observed in nature to inform the design of new technologies. She closely examined seal whiskers…
Read MoreThe Great Calcite Belt
The Great Calcite Belt appears from space as a vast milky-white band in the ocean encircling Antarctica. Its color comes from rich concentrations of the mineral calcite in waters near the…
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